One by one, Americans came up with reasons why they could not sit in judgement on Michael Jackson on the first day of jury selection that will eventually lead to the singer’s child molestation trial.

THE US is preparing to install a ground-based interceptor in Alaska’s interior - the first component of a national defence system designed to shoot down enemy missiles.

MILITARY officials have charged a US Air Force translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with espionage and aiding the enemy for allegedly trying to send information about detainees to Syria.

The break-up of the space shuttle Columbia on Saturday was the latest in a series of accidents since space exploration began in 1957 with the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite.

A US test to knock out a dummy warhead in space has proved a success.